From the author of The Old Ways and Underland, an eloquent (and
compulsively readable) reminder that, though we're laying waste the
world, nature still holds sway over much of the earth's surface. --Bill
McKibben
Winner of the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature and a
finalist for the Orion Book Award
Are there any genuinely wild places left in Britain and Ireland? That is
the question that Robert Macfarlane poses to himself as he embarks on a
series of breathtaking journeys through some of the archipelago's most
remarkable landscapes. He climbs, walks, and swims by day and spends his
nights sleeping on cliff-tops and in ancient meadows and wildwoods. With
elegance and passion he entwines history, memory, and landscape in a
bewitching evocation of wildness and its vital importance.